Post by: MrsFlynn on December 01, 2020, 08:35:12 PM
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1. Check the DeviceConfig.log file in the \Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3.
2. Open the file by double-clicking on it, and look for the Rating Info section.
What's your GPU rating? -- For reference the rating of 1 = low to 5 = High/Uber
Knowing this will come in handy when editing the GraphicsRules.sgr file, later on.
3. While still having the DeviceConfig.log file open, look for the Graphics device info section and in that section, look for the word Device and note that number. You'll need it to add to the GraphicsCards.sgr file in a few minutes.
4. Now that you've noted your GPU rating and Device ID. Let's go edit some graphics files.
5. Open the GraphicsRules.sgr
-- If you've got a 5 or High/Uber rated card, scroll to the Uber section of the file. Look for: seti cardLevel $cardLevelUber.
-- Just before the last parenthesis ')' at the end, copy/paste this into your file:
or match("${cardName}", "*RTX 20??*")
** Please note this is just an example for Nvidia RTX 2000 series cards. If you have something different, like a GTX card, then you'd need to type that in instead. Example:
or match("${cardName}", "*GTX 16??*")
Click save when finished.
6. Open the GraphicsCards.sgr file to add your card to the file.
-- If you have an Nvidia GTX or RTX card, scroll down to the top of the vendor "NVIDIA" section and copy this into your file:
card 0x1f11 "GeForce RTX 2060"
** Replace the the number above with your card's Device ID, leaving the 0x and the word card. Then add your card's name to it if different than GeForce RTX 2060.
Click save when finished.
7. Load up Sims 3 to the main menu and then exit the game. Look look at your DeviceConfig.log file again to see that it should give you [Found: 1, Matched: 1] under Graphics Device Info.
Hopefully this helps, and if not please let us know your graphics card Device ID and we'll update the files for you.
Flynn & MrsFlynn